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May Day celebrations around the world

May Day celebrations around the world

Wed 1 May 2013

A child looks at supporters of the ruling People wear t-shirts with an image of late Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez during May Day celebrations in Managua today. Photograph: Reuters

Waste pickers wash their faces in an underground water tank near the dumping site of a vegetable market on May Day in Kathmandu. Photograph: Reuters

A supporter of the ruling Sandinista party holds up a Cuban national flag with the image of revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara during early May Day celebrations in Managua Photograph: Reuters

May Day protesters throw stones at riot police as they try to break through barricades to reach the city's main square in central Istanbul today. The incidents followed the pattern of recent years, when May Day demonstrations in Turkey's largest city have often been marked by clashes between police and protesters. Photograph: Reuters

A person holds a holds a windmill as people watch the sun rise as they join in a May Day dawn celebration service in Glastonbury, England. Photograph: Getty Images

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A garment worker attends a march to mark May Day in Phnom Penh. Photograph: Reuters

Protesters take part in a May Day demonstration on in Malaga, southern Spain today. Photograph: Reuters

Presidential guards and riot police are seen by a burned EU flag in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens following a May Day rally. Photograph: Reuters

An African immigrant holds hands with a Greek protester in solidarity during a May Day rally in Athens today. Photograph: Reuters

A garment worker sews a maternity dress at a factory east of Manila today. Organised labour groups marched today to demand wage increase after president Benigno Aquino announced a package of non-cash benefits instead of wage increase to workers, on May Day. Photograph: Reuters

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A man holds a placard depicting Spain's prime minister Mariano Rajoy and former People's Party treasurer Luis Barcenas inspired by Michelangelo Buonarroti's painting 'The Creation of Adam' during a May Day protest in Madrid today. Photograph: Reuters

Garment workers march to mark May Day in Phnom Penh. Photograph: Reuters

Protestors burn an effigy near the United States Embassy today in Manila, the Philippines. Philippine workers unions gathered in the streets of Manila to demand, among other things, better pay, an end to contractualisation and layoff and the lowering of prices of basic commodities. Photograph: Getty Images